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You may remember back in the Fall that I reviewed the Envirocycle compost tumbler, which of course remains an important part of my composting projects.
As the months got colder, my material was degrading at a slower rate and I continued to add to it as normal. The instructions mention not filling it beyond 3/4ths of the way, and they weren’t kidding. When January rolled around, it was about full and my material was rather frozen when I decided to try tumbling it. The result: The latch bent out of shape. Whoops!
That was my lone complaint about the product: lack of non-plastic parts. A metal door hinge and a metal latch would both make the product even better. I wrote Envirocycle with these suggestions, and they happened to mention that future development will consider these upgrades.
Anyway, I mentioned to them that the tumbler door wouldn’t stay closed for more than one full rotation, and I think it was due to being too full. They responded to the email rather quickly, and mailed me these little guys:

Not just one, but two. Hopefully, I won’t need the second one. I am most likely going to try and fashion a replacement out of a piece of scrap metal and rivet it in place. I was pretty pleased with how quickly they responded to my concern, so I give a thumbs up to Envirocycle. My dumb ass will chill out on overloading the thing, too.
Now that I have two worm systems going I shouldn’t have this problem going forward, anyway…